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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1995
Richard J Molnar, Willoughby, OH (US);
Elsag International N.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Digital supervisory and diagnostic circuitry to provide a watchdog function and a low voltage detect function and diagnostics for those functions. The watchdog function has a high immunity to EMI and RFI disturbances and may be enabled or disabled as necessary. An indication is provided of the cause of the last reset so that a reset due to EMI can be distinguished from a reset due to a power failure. The low voltage detect circuitry is implementable in an integrated circuit chip. The low voltage detect circuitry eliminates oscillations from the reset signal and provides a delay which is programmable by the user. The circuitry is designed so that the length of the delay can never be zero.